Analysis: How Do We Use Advice from the Past to Better Prepare for Student Teaching?
Introduction
As we begin to think about starting student teaching in late January, you may be asking questions like: What is student teaching like? How is it different from a normal semester of classes? What changes will I need to make in my lifestyle? Are there things I can do beforehand to make the transition easier?
Fortunately, you are not the first person person to ask these questions or succeed as a student teacher. Each year, the student teachers are asked to "pay it backwards" by providing some advice to those preparing to student teach in the spring. In this assignment, you will get a chance to read a portion of this advice, synthesize your findings with others, and then teach the "high points" to a group of your peers. At the end of this activity sequence, you will apply what you've learned to develop your own Pre Student Teaching Action Plan, i.e. a list of concerns and strategies you can use to prepare yourself for student teaching.
Instructions
Work individually in a in "Question-focused" group to review ONE year's worth of advice for ONE of the four questions that student teachers since 2007 have been asked to reflect upon:
a. What are some things students should do in their fall practicum to make their student teaching go more smoothly?
b. What 430 topics/assignments should students make sure are addressed in detail to prepare them for student teaching?
c. Help the next group of science education student teachers by completing the thought: "If I knew in September what I know now, I could have been better prepared for student teaching if I had ...."
d. Are there other words of wisdom/encouragement that you want to share?
As you review your year's worth of advice, use the spreadsheet embedded below to (a) record each new piece of advice or (b) use the columns to the right to note each time a piece of advice is duplicated.
Work in your "Question-Focused" groups to organize your data and identify the key concerns or strategies that you feel should be shared with others. One way to organize is to rank by most popular. Another way would be to identify broad topics and then sort your list of advice by these topics. You decide. Your goal is to come up with a few key areas that others can use to prepare for student teaching.
Brainstorm other concerns/strategies that you think might be useful.
Regroup in "Cross-Question" groups to so that each person in the group teach each other about the what their previous groups learned from the past.
After learning from each other, work individually to reflect on your own needs and concerns and complete a Pre-Student Teaching Action Plan beginning with the link below.
Advice
Analysis
Action
Use the Template: "EDC 430 - Pre Student Teaching Action Plan" to develop your own goals and strategies that you will use to prepare for student teaching.
Analysis: How Do We Use Advice from the Past to Better Prepare for Student Teaching?
Introduction
As we begin to think about starting student teaching in late January, you may be asking questions like: What is student teaching like? How is it different from a normal semester of classes? What changes will I need to make in my lifestyle? Are there things I can do beforehand to make the transition easier?
Fortunately, you are not the first person person to ask these questions or succeed as a student teacher. Each year, the student teachers are asked to "pay it backwards" by providing some advice to those preparing to student teach in the spring. In this assignment, you will get a chance to read a portion of this advice, synthesize your findings with others, and then teach the "high points" to a group of your peers. At the end of this activity sequence, you will apply what you've learned to develop your own Pre Student Teaching Action Plan, i.e. a list of concerns and strategies you can use to prepare yourself for student teaching.
Instructions
Advice
Analysis
Action
Use the Template: "EDC 430 - Pre Student Teaching Action Plan" to develop your own goals and strategies that you will use to prepare for student teaching.